Going south: Movement and social upheaval in the Confederate States
Dr. Yael Sternhell of Tel Aviv University analyzes the interplay between physical movement of populations and the redrawing of the social and political order.
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Ultra-Ortholopolis The City of Tomorrow, Today!
Breaking with longstanding policy, the Israeli government plans to build whole new neighborhoods within cities for the Haredim so they would not “take over” neighborhoods now peopled by secular and modern-orthodox folks.
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Bitcoins, the Holocaust & Psoriasis: Israel’s New Lobbyists
Over the past year, there was a 64 percent growth in the number of registered lobbyists hobnobbing Knesset members to promote specific interests.
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Russian renaissance: Jewish renewal in post-Soviet Russia
Dr. Simon Parizhsky of Moscow’s Eshkolot Center busts a few myths about the “Dark Ages” of the Soviet Union and the “enlightenment” of the post-Communist era.
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Two States, One State, Whatever
The first meeting between US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has stirred confusion in Israelis, Palestinians, American Jews and other living things.
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Rule or exception? The political and legal implications of emergencies
Dr. Karin Loevy and Dr. Yoav Mehozay discuss how states of emergency are far more prevalent than we’d like to admit, and the repercussions for democracy that this situation entails.
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The Pious Floozies of the IDF
A cartoon video recently went viral; it aims to persuade religious women to opt out of army service to avoid boredom, ennui and sexual harassment.
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Playing with Fire
A rocket fired from Gaza towards a neighboring Jewish town resulted in a pounding IDF response intended to be a warning, but could it nudge us to a war nobody wants?
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Bridges over troubled water: Literary translations as basis of binationalism
Professor Yehuda Shenhav of Tel Aviv University discusses how literary translations can outperform scholarship in bringing about positive social change.
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Eighteen Months
Alor Azaria, the soldier who shot dead a disarmed and injured Palestinian attacker in the West Bank city of Hebron, was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
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